Posted on 04/16/2009 1:16:34 PM PDT by Joiseydude
“Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and”
Dont forget newspapers cause global warming, acid rain and are highly flammable. Give me a week and I will make up data showing that more children are killed by newspapers than by second hand smoke.
Correct, we had newspapers before the massive advertisement industry they became.
Deal!
I think this would be great, but most politicians are a bit worried about bringing this up.
Maybe, as more and more of these dinosaurs go broke, the politicians will turn on the print media.
That day can not come soon enough!
It is absurd that conservatives who NEVER get endorsed by their local papers are so worried about offending their local papers.
journalists ARE reliant lapdogs.
If you do not believe this then just check out how they ignored the tea tax protest, or whored themselves to get this magic negro elected.
“...reliant lapdogs.” The MSM are already “reliable” lapdogs. And the notion that our media is independent is ludicrous. Unless, of course, it is independence from honesty, truth, objectivity and basic fairness. The MSM is certainly independent from those little items.
What do you mean second hand smoke, just think of all those years news papers and that toxic ink was used to start fires in the old warm morning cook stove, not to mention the little house out back. LOL
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to choose whose speech to not partake in. If the NYT is failing, it is because the People are choosing to not partake in their message.
The government should not be in the business of choosing whose speech to financially support (and abridging the speech of those the government chooses to not financially support). As we saw with the banking and automotive bailouts, the government will feel an ownership right to affect the management of those enterprises. The First Amendment forbids the government from forcing a particular press to engage in certain actions by law (i.e. strings attached to bailouts).
I suppose there is no law in the government publishing their own newspaper, as long as the People still have the freedom to provide their own press.
-PJ
“But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.”
And the difference would be. Actually, it might make the already obvious a little more obvious to sheeple.
Form a commission and call it INGSOC. Orwell was 25 years early.
These critics are a bit late!!!!!
Olive Stone will do just fine.
really?? I though perhaps Michael Moore.
Rosa Brooks is a red diaper baby, the daughter of left-wing journalist Barbara Ehrenreich.
The magazines her mother writes for make sweeping claims about their own independence from outside influence.
But seeing how quick Rosa is to reach for the government dollar when things get tough makes you wonder how sincere all that talk of independence really is.
This nitwit is now a Pentagon adviser?!?!?
Time to start learning Mandarin...
If challenged, our black-robed minor gods on the Scotus will find it constitutional.
Actually, the day the government bails out liberal rags with our tax money is the day I don't ever want to see...
These left wing spawn of Goebbels have done more to destroy a good and noble profession than an invading army. My God, writers were given special protection under the Constitution. I hate these people. They destroyed a special trust granted by God and reaffirmed by the founders.
When it comes time to hang traitors, I want a separate line reserved for so-called journalists.
I read somewhere that NPR has a bigger audience than Rush.
The elevator music crowd ...
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